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chrisroos / gpg-import-and-export-instructions.md
Created September 9, 2011 10:49
Instructions for exporting/importing (backup/restore) GPG keys

Every so often I have to restore my gpg keys and I'm never sure how best to do it. So, I've spent some time playing around with the various ways to export/import (backup/restore) keys.

Method 1

Backup the public and secret keyrings and trust database

cp ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg /path/to/backups/

or, instead of backing up trustdb...

@wtaysom
wtaysom / where_is.rb
Created September 23, 2011 08:57
A little Ruby module for finding the source location where class and methods are defined.
module Where
class <<self
attr_accessor :editor
def is_proc(proc)
source_location(proc)
end
def is_method(klass, method_name)
source_location(klass.method(method_name))
@rgreenjr
rgreenjr / postgres_queries_and_commands.sql
Last active July 16, 2024 15:14
Useful PostgreSQL Queries and Commands
-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
ORDER BY query_start desc;
-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
@jareware
jareware / SCSS.md
Last active July 1, 2024 09:25
Advanced SCSS, or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do

⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

@fatih
fatih / ring.go
Created December 24, 2013 00:47
container/ring example golang
package main
import (
"container/ring"
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
coffee := []string{"kenya", "guatemala", "ethiopia"}
@jberkus
jberkus / gist:6b1bcaf7724dfc2a54f3
Last active January 7, 2024 21:26
Finding Unused Indexes
WITH table_scans as (
SELECT relid,
tables.idx_scan + tables.seq_scan as all_scans,
( tables.n_tup_ins + tables.n_tup_upd + tables.n_tup_del ) as writes,
pg_relation_size(relid) as table_size
FROM pg_stat_user_tables as tables
),
all_writes as (
SELECT sum(writes) as total_writes
FROM table_scans
@ghilead
ghilead / create_es_combined_index.rake
Last active January 18, 2019 12:08
Rake task for collocating multiple models as types in a single index.
# A Rake tasks to facilitate importing data from your models into a common Elasticsearch index.
#
# All models should declare a common index_name, and a document_type:
#
# class Article
# include Elasticsearch::Model
#
# index_name 'app_scoped_index'
# document_type 'articles'
#
@kachayev
kachayev / concurrency-in-go.md
Last active May 31, 2024 09:34
Channels Are Not Enough or Why Pipelining Is Not That Easy
@acolyer
acolyer / service-checklist.md
Last active July 10, 2024 05:13
Internet Scale Services Checklist

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

Basic tenets

  • Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
  • Have we kept things as simple as possible?